Ed Knight was taken to HCA’S Chippenham Hospital in Virginia after cutting his arm in a fall from a ladder. He was billed a $17,000 trauma team “activation” fee for what the hospital called a “mild” ...

Six years ago, an expert panel made a strong suggestion to the White House: set up a national system to care for patients with traumatic injuries, which lead to about 30,000 deaths every year. “In the ...

One third of severely injured trauma patients in the United States are first treated at hospitals designated as Level III or non-trauma centers, and less than half of those patients get transferred ...

Serious injury is the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 1 and 44, and after cancer and the heart disease-stroke complex, injury results in the most years of life lost. Injury ...